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Investors and traders were bracing for Wednesday’s consumer-price index report for January to mostly reflect either little change from or a slight improvement over the final month of 2024. Yet one part of the financial market continued to flash worrisome signs about future price gains.

For tens of millions of Americans, Social Security is the most vital federal program of all

You need more medical care as you get older. But how can you tell if it’s necessary—or a waste?

A member of the “MAGA Seven,” Coinbase is seeing an increase in interest.

Gold has been on an impressive run toward the $3,000-an-ounce milestone, with a years-long buying spree by central banks and economic uncertainty tied to President Donald Trump’s policies leading the metal to outperform other asset classes so far this year.

Shares of Intel Corp. were surging on Tuesday after Vice President J.D. Vance made bullish comments about semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. at an artificial-intelligence summit in Paris.

Carlyle Group Inc.’s stock fell 5% on Tuesday after the private-equity firm signaled a slowdown in its fee-related earnings growth in 2025, as it leans on its private-credit arm to increase its profit.

Investors will be focused on margins given competitive pressures in the market for AI servers. They’ll also be looking for an update on the company’s delayed financial filings.

If you need to generate income from your investments, selecting securities or funds based on their current interest or dividend payouts might solve the immediate problem. But a strategy of increasing dividend income might work out better over the long term.

Guggenheim downgraded Snap’s stock, warning that increased AI investments could defer operating profits until 2027.

Wall Street analysts tweaked their McDonald’s Corp. share-price targets and generally agreed that a rebound in the fast-food giant’s core U.S. business is coming following last year’s E. coli outbreak, as they sifted through the company’s latest earnings results.

Penalties and fees could add up for tax protesters, for little impact.